tailieunhanh - A Prince of Sinners E. Phillips Oppenheim BOOK 1 CHAPTER 19

A Prince of Sinners E. Phillips Oppenheim BOOK 1 CHAPTER 19 THE MARQUIS MEPHISTOPHELES Đây là một tác phẩm anh ngữ nổi tiếng với những từ vựng nâng cao chuyên ngành văn chương. Nhằm giúp các bạn yêu thich tiếng anh luyện tập và củng cố thêm kỹ năng đọc tiếng anh . | A Prince of Sinners E Philips Oppenheim BOOK 1 CHAPTER 19 THE MARQUIS MEPHISTOPHELES I am so sorry she said softly our last evening is spoilt. He shook his head with an effort at gaiety. Let us conspire he said. You and I at least will make a struggle. I am afraid she said that it would be hopeless. Mother is an absolute wreck and I saw Lord Arranmore go into the library just now with that terrible white look under his eyes. I saw it once before. Ugh After all he said it only means that we shall be honest. Cheerfulness tonight could only be forced. She laughed softly into his eyes. How correct she murmured. You are improving fast. He turned and looked at her slim and graceful in her white muslin gown her fair hair brushed back from her forehead with a slight wave but drooping low over her ears a delicate setting for her piquant face. The dark brown eyes narrowing a little towards the lids met his with frank kindliness her mouth quivered a little as though with the desire to break away into a laugh. The slight duskiness of her cheeks--she had lived for three years in Italy and never worn a veil--pleased him better than the insipidity of pink and white and the absence of jewelry--she wore neither bracelet nor rings gave her an added touch of distinction which restless youth finds something so much harder to wear than sedate middle age. The admiration grew in his eyes. She was charming. The lips broke away at last. After all she murmured I think that I shall enjoy myself this evening. You are looking all sorts of nice things at me. My eyes he answered are more daring than my lips. And you call yourself a lawyer Is that a challenge Well I was thinking that you looked charming. Is that all I have a looking-glass you know. And I shall miss you--very much. She suddenly avoided his eyes but it was for a second only. Yet Brooks was himself conscious of the significance of that second. He set his teeth hard. The days here he said slowly have been very pleasant. It has all .